Facilitating social networking in inner-city neighborhoods

Computer

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 44-50

  Foth, Marcus ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Pervasive computing; Social networking systems; Urban computing

Indexed keywords

ANIMATION; COMPUTER NETWORKS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

PERVASIVE COMPUTING; SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEMS; URBAN COMPUTING;

SOCIAL SCIENCES COMPUTING;

EID: 33749371592     PISSN: 00189162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MC.2006.305     Document Type: Article

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